Word: singularity
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College may be poor, but it really seems as if the Corporation might have voted the small sum necessary to establish our ex-President on a sound footing in his new position. The beautiful statue, which was so generously presented to the College, has indeed been treated with singular inhospitality ever since its arrival. About three months ago it was tossed down in a corner of the vestibule in Memorial Hall, with the packing case half opened; and in that insecure position it remained till a week ago, when it was moved to Sanders Theatre. It hardly seems possible that...
...contempt they deserve, but we feel that it is of the utmost importance to preserve kindly feeling between the two colleges, and therefore we cannot let it pass unnoticed. That this gentleman expresses the opinions of his college in the matter we do not believe, and yet it is singular that he should have been allowed to go on writing to the "Spirit" for the last month uncontradicted, if his sentiments were opposed to those of the college. The New York Herald says that the article in our sporting column was instrumental in causing Cornell to withdraw her challenge...
...newspapers a reported conversation that Captain Cook had with several members of the press. Besides laying claim to the honor of being the man who has done more for rowing in America than any one else, and besides declaring his ability to coach Morris, he informs the public, with singular modesty, that he is the man who gave Waters of Troy the model of an English eight-oared shell, and it is due to his magnanimity that Harvard is rowing at present in a shell made after that model...
...only were obtained, a fact that speaks itself for the excellency of the fielding. It gives us great pleasure to be able to follow up our editorial of our last issue with another upon the same subject, and though, like the rest of the college, we wonder at the singular negligence that should have left it for us to write, we are well satisfied that it should be so. We wish to call attention to the manager's statement of finances, which clearly shows the need of money, for the expenditures of the Nine have been great and the receipts...
...President of the United States: Sir, - It is with singular pleasure that we, the President and Fellows of Harvard University in Cambridge, embrace the opportunity which your most acceptable visit to this part of the country gives us. of paying our respects to the first magistrate of the United States. .... Permit us, sir, to congratulate you on the happy establishment of the government of the Union, on the patriotism and wisdom which have marked its public transactions, and the very general approbation which the people have given to its measures At the same time, sir, being fully sensible that...